Job 9:25
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.”
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BSBPD
“My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“My days have been swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have not seen good,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 9:25 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Esther 8:14The couriers rode out in haste on their royal horses, pressed on by the command of the king. And the edict was also issued in the citadel of Susa.
- Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
- Job 14:1“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
- Psalms 39:5You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
- Psalms 39:11You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
- Psalms 89:47Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
- Psalms 90:9For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.
- James 4:14You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
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